Tunable single emitter-cavity coupling strength through waveguide-assisted energy quantum transfer

Yuan Liu; Hongwei Zhou; Linhan Lin; Hong-Bo Sun

doi:10.1038/s41377-024-01508-z

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Tunable single emitter-cavity coupling strength through waveguide-assisted energy quantum transfer

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- Tunable single emitter-cavity coupling strength through waveguide-assisted energy quantum transfer
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 13, Issue 9, Pages: 1779-1788(2024)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.Department of Precision Instrument, State Key Laboratory of Precision Measurement Technology and Instruments, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
  2.State Key Laboratory of Integrated Optoelectronics, College of Electronic Science and Engineering, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China
- Author bio：
  
  Linhan Lin (linlh2019@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn)
  Hong-Bo Sun (hbsun@tsinghua.edu.cn)
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1038/s41377-024-01508-z
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- Published：30 September 2024，
  
  Published Online：18 July 2024，
  
  Received：17 November 2023，
  
  Revised：27 May 2024，
  
  Accepted：24 June 2024
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Liu, Y. et al. Tunable single emitter-cavity coupling strength through waveguide-assisted energy quantum transfer. Light: Science & Applications, 13, 1779-1788 (2024).
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Liu, Y. et al. Tunable single emitter-cavity coupling strength through waveguide-assisted energy quantum transfer. Light: Science & Applications, 13, 1779-1788 (2024). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-024-01508-z.

摘要

Abstract

The emitter-cavity strong coupling manifests crucial significance for exploiting quantum technology

especially in the scale of individual emitters. However

due to the small light-matter interaction cross-section

the single emitter-cavity strong coupling has been limited by its harsh requirement on the quality factor of the cavity and the local density of optical states. Herein

we present a strategy termed waveguide-assisted energy quantum transfer (WEQT) to improve the single emitter-cavity coupling strength by extending the interaction cross-section. Multiple ancillary emitters are optically linked by a waveguide

providing an indirect coupling channel to transfer the energy quantum between target emitter and cavity. An enhancement factor of coupling strength

$$ \widetilde{g}/g \gt 10 $$

can be easily achieved

which dramatically release the rigorous design of cavity. As an extension of concept

we further show that the ancillae can be used as controlling bits for a photon gate

opening up new degrees of freedom in quantum manipulation.

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